Appeal No. 2000-0304 Page 5
Application No. 08/778,688
1888 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (citations omitted). That is, something
in the prior art as a whole must suggest the desirability, and
thus the obviousness, of making the combination. See In re
Beattie, 974 F.2d 1309, 1312, 24 USPQ2d 1040, 1042 (Fed. Cir.
1992); Lindemann
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